Monthly Archives: September 2017

It is always appropriate to have the house clean and in order at all time. This means backing up routine cleaning with occasional tenancy cleaning for the home. The coming of a new season may just require that the house gets cleaned up in every corner. Every area of the home should be touched to achieve the best results. A cleaning company can be hired to help with the cleaning chores which are basically numerous at such times. This is because they are always with the required expertise to manage every cleaning need that may be required. For parts like the lawn, some tools may be needed which you may not have at the moment while cleaning companies have several of them.

Most people tend to concentrate so much on the interior of their houses. They forget the exterior which is the first sight that meets any one who visits your home or office. This could be as a result of lacking the required skills in managing the whole tenancy cleaning process. Having the house clean from inside to the outside is very important. Lack of information and appropriate skills leave lawns neglected during tenancy cleaning. You can learn important skills on how to take care of your lawn. If you are not able to handle the entire cleaning then it is just necessary that you have a helping hand.

A complete cleaning will require your attention to the lawn for you to be able of having done a complete job. A beautiful lawn is able to make you feel relaxed at the end of a long exhausting day. Harsh seasons like winter can leave your lawn looking really bad. An end of season tenancy cleaning is just the best time to have it shaped out and filled with new life to usher in the coming of a new season. To prevent the growth of weeds with broad leaves such as dandelion, you can have the lawn pre-segmented. It should also be fertilized and mowed to get out accumulated weeds from the gone season. Putting some straw on the lawn and mulching it would give a fresh look at the end of your cleaning.

All this may be hard work for you. You may also lack the know-how on lawn management. No point to worry. There are many cleaning companies which you can find online, in telephone and postal directories. You can seek help at Tree Removal Alexandra Hills to ease the burden of your lawn cleaning. You can also ask your friends and neighbors who have used some of the services offered by the companies. If they had their lawns given a desirable face lift, then you could be sure to use the company for your lawn too. Getting references and company testimonials from the tenancy cleaning company’s office would also help you to know their reputation. Such companies are capable to handle not only your lawn but also the entire cleaning of your home.

Small, they say, is beautiful. Maybe. What small certainly is, is less wasteful than big – particularly where garden watering is concerned. In fact, where garden watering is concerned small definitely is beautiful: and not just beautiful but downright spectacular. There’s a whole different world of garden irrigation out there, based on the simplest idea in the world, which is saving money, water and space in equally enormous quantities. It’s called micro irrigation, it costs practically nothing to implement, and it could, if used by every garden in the country, potentially save enough water to serve an entire city for months on end.

How is this possible? Through a simple recognition of scale. In this case, a scale that compares the amount of water actually used by plants to grow, against the amount of water that falls on them during a rain shower or “watering incident” – which is a posh scientific way of saying, when someone turns on a hose or dumps a watering can over a flower bed. That, for want of a better description, would be macro irrigation: chucking as much water as possible at a group of plants in the hope that they’ll manage to catch enough of it to grow. Micro irrigation works from the other end of the same principle, achieving a perspective flip on that scale of used water by only dispensing that tiny fraction of all this water that plants actually use.

How’s that then? It’s simple enough to understand that if one dumps, say, six gallons of water all over a garden only a tiny proportion of that will ever find its way into the roots and leaves of the plants. But how can one only dispense that minute fraction? Surely that would just mean that an equally minute fraction of the minute fraction would get used – which, in turn, would mean one very dead garden.

If micro irrigation worked from the sky down, as it were, then yes, that would be the case. Remember, though, that the new watering is all about flipping the whole perspective of garden irrigation – from sky down, to ground up. That’s how micro watering systems work. Rather than dumping gallons and gallons of water out of the sky onto the plants in a garden, micro watering systems place water, very deliberately, into the ground at the exact points where it is going to get used.

How? How can a watering system (and a cheap one ) be so effective that it doesn’t need all the attrition associated with the normal “carpet bombing” approach to garden watering? Simple. Remember we said this was all based on an easy idea? Well, try this on for size. Micro irrigation uses the childishly clever idea of running tiny pipes right up to the roots of each plant in the garden, and dropping (literally – the water comes out in drops) water right where it’s needed. Easy, when you know how. All that waste, gone – and only the good stuff remaining. If everyone did that, we’d never have a water shortage again.